Note:This article is based on a report received by the National Association
of Chiefs of Police.

While
the battle over providing illegal aliens with driver's licenses rages
in state capitals and Washington, DC, North Carolina created the first
"North American Union" driver's license, complete with a hologram
of the North American continent on the licenses.

The
hologram is a facsimile of the map of North America that is used as
the background for the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North
America logo on the SPP website.

Marge
Howell, spokeswoman for the North Carolina DMV, told the press that
the state was embedding a hologram of North America on the back of
their new driver's licenses. "It's a security element that eventually
will be on the back of every driver's license in North America," Howell
said.

Howell
explained the hologram of the North American continent was the creation
of the American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators, a tax-exempt,
nonprofit organization that, according to the group's website, "develops
model programs in motor vehicle administration, law enforcement and
highway safety."

Founded
in 1933, AAMVA represents state and provincial officials in the United
States and Canada who administer and enforce motor vehicle laws. The
government of Mexico is also a member, though the individual Mexican
states have yet to join.

According
to the group's website, AAMVA's programs are designed "to encourage
uniformity and reciprocity among the states and provinces."

"The
goal is of the North American hologram," Howell explained, "is to
get one common element that law enforcement throughout the continent
can look at on all driver's licenses and tell that the driver's license
is an official document."

Jason
King, spokesman for AAMVA, affirmed the North American hologram was
created by AAMVA's Uniform Identification Subcommittee, a working
group of AAMVA members.

He
explained the goal is to create a continental security device that
could be used by state and provincial motor vehicles agencies throughout
North America, including the United States, Canada, and Mexico.

King
referenced a document on the AAMVA website that describes guidelines
for using the North America continent hologram as an Optical Variable
Device (OVD) that AAMVA has now licensed with private manufacturers
to produce.

AAMVA
supplies member motor vehicle agencies with a quantity of North American
continent hologram OVD foils to use on their driver's licenses and
ID cards as needed.

As
the guidelines document on the AAMVA explains, each North American
continental hologram OVD foil is embedded with a unique set of control
numbers that permit law enforcement electronic scanners to identify
the exact jurisdiction and precise individual authorized to hold a
driver's license or ID card with that particular OVD foil embedded.

"AAMVA
understands its unique positioning and the continuing role identification
security will play in helping the general public realize a safer North
America," King said. "The association believes ID security will help
increase national security, increase highway safety, reduce fraud
and system abuse, increase efficiency and effectiveness, and achieve
uniformity of processes and practices."

Missouri
State Rep. Jim Guest has held a seminar in North Carolina to protest
the Real ID law. The surprise came at a meeting on the Real ID held
in Raleigh, North Carolina, on Saturday, July 28,"

When
Rep. Guest asked participants to take out their driver's license and
see what was on it one gentleman was a state employee and on his license
there was this hologram with the North American continent on the back.
They were all surprised to see that on a North Carolina driver's license.

Guest
has formed a coalition called Legislators Against Real ID Act, or
LARI.

"I
was astonished when I saw that North American hologram on the North
Carolina driver's license," Guest said. "I thought to myself that
the state DMV has already included this North American symbol on the
back of the driver's license without telling the people of North Carolina
they were going to do this."

"I
thought right then that this was going to be the prototype for the
driver's license of the North American Union. When we called the North
Carolina DMV, they hedged at first," Guest said, "but finally they
admitted that, yes, there was a North American continent hologram
on the back of the license."

"This
is part of a plan by bureaucrats and trade groups that act like bureaucrats
to little by little transform us into a North American Union without
any vote being taken and without explaining to the U.S. public what
they are doing," Guest argued.

In
2005, North Carolina was the state where illegal immigrants go to
get a driver's license, with busloads of aliens travel south on I-95
to get an easy ID.

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The
Tar Heel State's requirements to obtain a license are weaker than
those of many surrounding states.

In
2006, Pastor Rios Sanchez, 55, an illegal alien, was accused of killing
three people, including two North Carolina State University students
and a 26-year-old, while driving drunk.

Jim Kouri, CPP
is currently fifth vice-president of the National
Association of Chiefs of Police. He's former chief at a New York City
housing project in Washington Heights nicknamed "Crack City" by reporters
covering the drug war in the 1980s. He's also served on the National Drug
Task Force and trained police and security officers throughout the country.

He writes for
many police and crime magazines including Chief of Police, Police Times,
The Narc Officer, Campus Law Enforcement Journal, and others. He's appeared
as on-air commentator for over 100 TV and radio news and talk shows including
Oprah, McLaughlin Report, CNN Headline News, MTV, Fox News, etc. His book
Assume The Position is available at Amazon.Com, Booksamillion.com, and
can be ordered at local bookstores.